Compact doesn't reduce file size?

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Matthew

Hello,

I've recently archived some emails and they've gone into a .pst of
approximately 2700MB, however outlook says that the folder size is
2535MB. I can live with this as I assume there's some extra bits that
Outlook has to deal with, however my existing inbox is rather worse.
Outlook says that I have 303MB worth, but the .pst file is 2000MB?
I've tried compacting several times (this has come down from 3400MB)
but it's not going any further. Can I do anything about this?

Thanks
 
Hello,

I've recently archived some emails and they've gone into a .pst of
approximately 2700MB, however outlook says that the folder size is
2535MB. I can live with this as I assume there's some extra bits that
Outlook has to deal with, however my existing inbox is rather worse.
Outlook says that I have 303MB worth, but the .pst file is 2000MB?
I've tried compacting several times (this has come down from 3400MB)
but it's not going any further. Can I do anything about this?

Thanks
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The Inbox is only part of the .pst file. It includes all the folders in
Outlook.
 
The Inbox is only part of the .pst file. It includes all the folders in
Outlook.
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Sorry when I said inbox I included all the folders within that - the
303MB is the entire size. Interestingly I've tried running the
compression again this morning and it's knocked another 200MB off the
size.
 
Sorry when I said inbox I included all the folders within that - the
303MB is the entire size. Interestingly I've tried running the
compression again this morning and it's knocked another 200MB off the
size.
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Try doing a defrag.
 
Try doing a defrag.
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A defrag didn't help, but after googling some more I found that
there's a util in the Office12 folder called SCANPST.exe that checks
the .pst file for errors. I ran and did a repair then was able to
compress it some more. Repeated the process some more (probably around
5-6) and it's now down to 400MB!

Cheers for the advice anyway
 
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